"Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone ..."
- Pseudonymous Bosch
"*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before y..."
"Only bad books have good endings.If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end."
"Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems."
"It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians."
"...books were better than travel."
"The name of this book is mysterious."
"Please be SILENT and LISTEN.I am the SCHOOLMASTERand you are in the CLASSROOM.Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equalsTWELVE PLUS ONE,And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,You will find my DICTIONARYis quite IND..."
"But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sens..."
"If I do find out the Secret,I won't be able to tell it to you-you know that right?And that doesn't mean I don't trust you.It's just because I can't.Sometimes even best friends have to keep secrets fro..."